On a Yahoo Group that I follow there was a short discussion about copying one's VHS railroad tapes onto DVDs to preserve them. One fellow said he's done this, and keeps all of the original VHS tapes to prove that he bought them and can legally copy them for his own personal use.
I replied that I've done the same with the over 100 tapes that I had, and then I sold off the VHS tapes at local train shows. The copy DVDs all fit on one shelf, where the tapes were all over the place, one reason I had for replacing them was to gain some space.
The moderator came back lambasting me saying that selling MY tapes in such a manner and keeping the copies was ILLEGAL. And since Yahoo did not condone illegal copyright activities, I was not to refer to this practice again!
What a lot of BS! Me selling tapes that I paid for was illegal!! Talk about weak kneed wussies! Now if I was making copies of the VHS tapes and selling them, I could see that being not right, but selling MY tapes??
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Bob B